I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.
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We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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